Waterproof Skateboard Slippers by Andrew Abbott
Chasing Claire de Lune
Nick is forty and tries to capture the moon. Nightly, he reaches to the sky, but she darts between
shimmering silver clouds. She drifts with ease. Teases.
After losing teaching jobs, paying fealty to order, putting aside so-called senseless
dreams of art and creation, he wants to own beauty. The moon is the apotheosis, unveiled and
naked.
Nick follows her up hills. Lunges. Follows her down country roads and roaring highways.
He wants to hold her, slumber upon luminosity. Feel the weightlessness of joy.
People call him insane. They laugh, try to lock him up.
He keeps chasing.
He won’t surrender.
About the author:
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA program in fiction. His work is forthcoming or has been published in journals such as 50 Word Stories, Silent Auctions, City. River. Tree., and Ariel Chart.
In the artist’s words:
Andrew Abbot. Born: Nova Scotia, Canada, 1979 Lived: North Carolina, Maine, Oakland, Philadelphia, Louisiana, Georgia, Jamaica, Spain, Puerto Rico, Texas, Nigeria, etc…… Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York working as a minor actor in television/film/commercial. Selected previous occupations: Janitor, Dishwasher, Landscaping, Tree Removal, Delivery (antiques, flowers), Military (Army, 4 years), Political Canvassing, Cashier, Telephone Salesman. Sports: Skateboarding (street), Mountain Biking, Juggling. Married, No children. Vegetarian since 2001. Interested in Hallucinogens (although I rarely partake). Paints with acrylic paint.
How wonderful — the painting and the wriitten peice! Brava!
Johnnie